DallasArtsRevue's Fierce exhibition, at 14th Street Gallery [member page link] in Plano, Texas in July 2008 has a title, a logo, an organizing principle, a curator, a growing collection of superb artists and and a few eligibility requirements [both link below].

The next step is to visit all the artists' studios and begin picking pieces or trends toward pieces. I have taken a video trip through the space and will post that here, soon as I can figure out how to.

Now, the latest news of Fierce is posted blog style on the Fierce Index page.

Fierce started when 14th Street Gallery director Gaby Pruit asked during a visit last year, if I'd like to curate a show there. I said yes before I thought it through. She said she'd asked several people, and I was the only to accept. Then I began thinking it through, asked some questions and eventually even got a date. July 2008. It will be up three weeks, and the work will definitely be for sale.

Timing

The gallery will provide food for the opening and asks artists to bring some wine, which you probably would have done anyway; last time, it was difficult to get artists not to bring the stuff. I'll design the invitational postcard and write the PR, they'll mail it out and pay for printing the postcard — color one side, black-only the other side, 7.127 x 5.127 inches. Postcards will be available, so artists can send to our own mailing lists, also.

We can hang on July 1st, have the opening on Friday or Saturday, any time. It will close on Tuesday July 29, and we can take it down Wednesday, the 30th.

The artist/gallery split will be 70/30.

Mark Collop - You will get your turn (detail) from our 2007 Texas Biennial story
graphite, gauche and watercolor on paper - 10 x 13 inches

The Title

This title entered my consciousness after I twice used the words "oddly fierce" to describe work I liked enough to want to write about. For awhile, I tried to call the upcoming show Fierce Art, but that was redundant. I like calling it fierce, because it will remind me to make sure the work in the show is fierce.

Definition of Fierce Art

I haven't succeeded yet, but I've attempted to describe fierce art and still add to that attempt sometimes. Before that I wrote about edgy art, then got a little more successful at that, too. but I haven't hammered either term yet. It's all the same thing, although just because I called art edgy before, doesn't mean it still is.

Each of the DARts shows have had a page, more or less like this one, wherein and whereby it is organized. Starting the page starts the proceedings that starts the show. This has begun.

I kept these images moving for several months. Now that I've moved to the next stage of Fierce, studio visits [are] documented at the URL this one used to have as this portion of this site grows. The art that's here now is what was here when I changed the page. No real sense in changing it again.

Painting by Enrique Fernández Cervantes taken on my studio visit with him

I'd already invited DARts Member Art Shirer. He and Norm Kary hung and lighted the last show, so he got first grab at this new gig. He's also been very handy naming things, so I thought maybe he'd do a name for this one, too. But now I got one I'm running with it.

I also tried to get a name by listing the possibility with a bribe on the Opportunities page. Name it and be in it. But nobody sent a title. Just as well. I like this one, and it seems memorable.

More about the show, the name and whatever else I'm involved in or with is on ThEdblog. What exactly is fierce art is more difficult to put into words. So I'm placing images of what I think are fierce on this page.

Eligibility

Dallas-area artists who either are Supporting Members of DallasArtsRevue or who have been favorably reviewed on these pages are eligible to have work considered for this exhibition. I will review work by artists who do not meet these criteria by visiting a website, but selection thereby is much less likely.

Selection

Actual selection of work for this show will be on an individual piece basis. If I think it's truly fierce, it will likely go in. If not, not. Please note the big gray word, "Potential" heading the following lists. Listing here does not guarantee that these artists will be in the show. Just that I hope they will, if we can select the right work.

Charlotte Smith - unknown title (detail)

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Probable Artists [and their links, mostly on DallasArtsRevue, but other places, too]

George Bailey - Fallen Son of Perdition
acrylic, marker on hardboard - 48 x 48 inches

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Eligibility

These rules will probably change.

I'm linking everybody's name to whatever site or page I know of. Members to members' page. Guest to their websites. The art on those pages represents the artist(s), of course, but does not necessarily represent the work that will be in the show. I want fierce art.

This show will be carefully curated. No blanket invitations. Work will be chosen piece by piece.

We have enough artists for the show. No more will be added.

Jayme Nourallah - It could happen to anyone
from Art Conspiracy Three

Consideration does not necessarily mean acceptance.

Work in this show may not have been previously exhibited in North Central Texas.

The curator is the ultimate decider.

Oh, and I have decided that if I show anything at all in thie fierce show, it'll be in the back bathroom.

 

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